For the last few months, I’ve gotten down and dirty and begun finishing the  basement apartment at one of our rental properties.  It’s soon to be a basement bachelor apartment, with a walkout main entrance and a little private patio.

I think it’s going to be a great little apartment–but I have to finish the thing before I can really say that.  So to that end, I’ve finally gotten all of the framing, wiring and plumbing done, as well as moved the hotwater heater and all of the laundry.   So now it’s time for drywall.

A mess of drywall

Thankfully I’ve had lots of practice!  So things are moving pretty quickly.  I hope to have it all up by the end of this week.  We had to do a lot of boxing around ducts and tricky modifications to that far wall with the window so that the drywall would be perfectly flush with the window, but it all seems to have gone according to plan.

Drywalling is a cathartic process because it forces you to stop mucking about with things in the walls and ensures that you move on to other things.

Thankfully it’s not winter, so the furnace is off and the fans aren’t blowing drywall dust into the rest of the house, which wouldn’t be much fun for the tenants upstairs.

You know it’s bad when I’m blogging about drywall, and I’m actually a little excited about it!